The Cry Of The Owl (Le Cri du hibou)

The Cry Of The Owl (Le Cri du hibou) (1987)

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Based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, Le Cri du Hibou concerns Robert (Christophe Malavoy), a commercial artist who has moved to a quiet neighborhood in Vichy, hoping to escape a severe depression brought on by the unpleasant breakup of his marriage to Veronique (Virginie Thevenet). Robert finds… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 42 min.
Directed By
Claude Chabrol
Genres
Drama, Art House & International, Mystery & Suspense
In Theaters
Oct 28, 1987 Wide
On DVD
Mar 29, 2005

Critic Reviews

  • David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

    ...a terrible, consistently unwatchable piece of work that's about as wrongheaded as they come...

  • Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews

    Executed in a detached languishing stylistic clinical way.

  • Jeffrey M. Anderson, San Francisco Examiner

    Chabrol is a master at this kind of thing, reveling in the darkness and twists of fate that he learned from Hitchcock and Fritz Lang.

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